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Software

Submission + - Linux 2.6.27 Out

Submitted by diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: Linux 2.6.27 has been released. It adds a new filesystem (UBIFS) for "pure" flash-based storage, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performance, delayed allocation support for ext4, multiqueue networking, data integrity support in the block layer, a function tracer, a mmio tracer, sysprof support, improved webcam support, support for the Intel wifi 5000 series and RTL8187B network cards, a new ath9k driver for the Atheros AR5008 and AR9001 chipsets, more new drivers, and many other improvements and fixes. Full list of changes can be found here.
Software

Submission + - Linux 2.6.26

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "After three months, Linux 2.6.26 has been released. It adds support for read-only bind mounts, x86 PAT (Page Attribute Tables), PCI Express ASPM (Active State Power Management), ports of KVM to IA64, S390 and PPC, other KVM improvements including basic paravirtualization support, preliminar support of the future 802.11s wireless mesh standard, much improved webcam support thanks to a driver for UVC devices, a built-in memory tester, a kernel debugger, BDI statistics and parameters exposure in /sys/class/bdi, a new /proc/PID/mountinfo file for more accurate information about mounts, per-process securebits, device white-list for containers users, support for the OLPC, some new drivers and many small improvements. Full list of changes here"
Operating Systems

Submission + - Linux kernel v2.6.23 released (lkml.org)

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "After 3 months, Linus has released Linux 2.6.23. This version includes the new and shiny CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM smp guest support, variable process argument length, SLUB is now the default slab allocator, SELinux protection for exploiting null dereferences using mmap, XFS and ext4 improvements, PPP over L2TP support, the 'lumpy' reclaim algorithm, a userspace driver framework, the O_CLOEXEC file descriptor flag, splice improvements, a new fallocate() syscall, lock statistics, support for multiqueue network devices, various new drivers and many other minor features and fixes — see the changelog for details"
Operating Systems

Submission + - Published Linux kernel 2.6.21

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "Torvalds has released Linux 2.6.21 after months of development. This release improves the virtualization with VMI, a paravirtualization interface that will be used by Vmware. KVM does get initial paravirtualization support along with live migration and host suspend/resume support. 2.6.21 also gets a tickless idle loop mechanism called "Dynticks", built in top of "clockevents", another feature that unifies the timer handling and brings true high-resolution timers. Other features are: bigger kernel parameter-line, support for the PA SEMI PWRficient CPU and for the Cell-based "celleb" Toshiba architecture, NFS IPv6 support, IPv4 IPv6 IPSEC tunneling, UFS2 write, kprobes for PPC32, kexec and oprofile for ARM, public key encription for ecryptfs, Fcrypt and Camilla cipher algorithms, NAT port randomization, audit lockdown mode, some new drivers and many other small improvements."
Software

Submission + - Linux kernel 2.6.20 released

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "After two months of development, Linux 2.6.20 has been released. This release includes two different virtualization implementations: KVM: full-virtualization capabilities using Intel/AMD virtualization extensions and a paravirtualization implementation usable by different hypervisors. Aditionally, 2.6.20 includes PS3 support, a fault injection debugging feature, UDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, relocatable x86 kernel, some x86 microoptimizations, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, and many other things. Read the list of changes for more details."
The Internet

Submission + - Apache losing market share to IIS?

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "According to Netcraft February statistics, this month is the first time Apache's market share has been below 60% since Septembre 2002. The graphics show how Apache has been bleeding market share for the last year, right before it almost touched the 70% line. Is Apache losing the lead and the security reputation it has maintained for years, is the Microsoft's "Secure Development Cycle" paying off ?"
Operating Systems

Submission + - 2.6.19 Linux kernel released

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "After two months, Linux 2.6.19 has been released. It includes the clustering GFS2 filesystem, Ecryptfs , the first developer-oriented version of EXT4, support for the Atmel AVR32 architecture, sleepable RCU, improvements for NUMA-based systems, a "-o flush" mount option aimed at FAT-based hotpluggable media devices (mp3), physical CPU hotplug and memory hot-add in x86-64, support for compiling x86 kernels with the GCC stack protection and many other things. You can check the full list of changes in LinuxChanges"
Software

Submission + - Linux kernel 2.6.19 released

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "After 2 months, 2.6.19 has been released. This release includes the clustering GFS2 filesystem, Ecryptfs , the first experimental version of EXT4 (aimed at developers), support for the Atmel AVR32 architecture, sleepable RCU, improvements for NUMA-based systems, a "-o flush" mount option aimed at FAT-based hotpluggable media devices (mp3), physical CPU hotplug and memory hot-add in x86-64, support for compiling x86 kernels with the GCC stack protection, vectored async I/O , the Netlabel subsystem , allow to disable compilation of the block layer, IDE Parallel-ATA drivers based in libata , Granular IPSec associations for use in MLS environments, Mobile IPv6, some new drivers, improved support for many already existing drivers...you can read the full changelog at LinuxChanges"
United States

Submission + - How to gag your enemies using the DMCA

Submitted by
Diego Calleja
Diego Calleja writes: "The Register has published a interesting history of how their site was about to be taken off because of a DMCA complaint. The published a photo without having permissions and despite of addressing the problem by email, the photo owner fired off a DMCA takedown notice. It isn't amazing how fast works justice depending on the subject? "So our entire site would have been closed for business, all because of one photograph — admittedly not ours to republish. This did not strike us an entirely proportionate response, and it brought home to us how easy it is to use the DMCA to ambush websites housed in the US or hosted overseas by companies headquartered in the US. We are considering our options for ensuring that we do not face such a situation again""
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - An Ode to GPLv2

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "Continuing the new-age flawewar about GPLv3, Linus Torvalds posted an Ode to GPLv2: One of the reasons I didn't end up signing the GPLv3 position statement that James posted (and others had signed up for), was that a few weeks ago I had signed up for writing another kind of statement entirely: not so much about why I dislike the GPLv3, but why I think the GPLv2 is so great"
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - Linux Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "A group of 29 Linux kernel developers have recently come together and produced a position statement on GPLv3 (PDF, txt) explaining why they don't like the GPLv3. "The three key objections noted in section 5 are individually and collectively sufficient reason for us to reject the current licence proposal" [...] "we foresee the release of GPLv3 portends the Balkanisation of the entire Open Source Universe upon which we rely". They've also run a GPLv3 poll"
Announcements

Submission + - Linux 2.6.18 release

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "After three months of development, Linux 2.6.18 has been released. This release includes lightweight user space priority inheritance support , a "lock validator" debugging tool, a new power saving policy for multicore systems, SMPnice, a much improved SATA layer, a new per-packet access control for SELinux, a few new driversand many other small improvements. Reda the full details in the LinuxChanges documentation."
Software

Submission + - Released Linux 2.6.18

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "After three months of development, the Linux kernel 2.6.18 has been released. This release includes lightweight user space priority inheritance support, a "lock validator" debugging tool, a new power saving policy for multicore systems, SMPnice, a much improved SATA layer, swapless page migration, per-zone VM counters, per-task delay accounting, a new per-packet access control for SELinux called 'secmark', randomized i386 vDSO, a few new drivers, additional device support for many existing drivers, many bug fixes and many other small improvements. For a detailed explanation of all the new features and other things, check the LinuxChanges documentation."
Software

Submission + - Released Linux 2.6.18

Submitted by
diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "After three months of development, the 2.6.18 version of the Linux kernel has been released. This release includes lightweight user space priority inheritance support, a "lock validator" debugging tool, a new power saving policy for multicore systems, SMPnice, a much improved SATA layer, swapless page migration, per-zone VM counters, per-task delay accounting, a new per-packet access control for SELinux called 'secmark' , randomized i386 vDSO, a few new drivers, additional device support for many existing drivers, many bug fixes and many other small improvements. Check the LinuxChanges changelog for detailed information."

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